Si sono susseguite numerose voci di corridoio su una possibile “offerta shock” del Manchester City per avere Lionel Messi nella rosa dei giocatori. Queste offerte sono state smentite dall’allenatore Manuel Pellegrini, come riporta l’Independent. “The rumours are only rumours. What he did was exceptional and there are few players that can reach his level. The […]

Fa sempre bene porsi domande su idee o credenze diffuse e promosse come “fatti”. Talvolta questi “fatti” non sono nulla di tutto ciò, ma semplici idee ripetute fino alla nausea da gruppi influenti al punto da essere credute, col tempo, come fatti. Ciò accade anche con le diete o la perdita di peso: esistono molti “fatti” percepiti come tali ma […]

We usually receive emails and notifications concerning what they feel could be misinformation or hoax. This one was… particularly interesting. La Comunità Europea ha approvato il primo Piano per le politiche familiari che ha delineato una serie di azioni ed interventi da attuarsi nei paesi membri per la famiglia e secondo le risorse disponibili. Fra […]

You might have seen this picture being shared over the Internet and on several other news sites. According to these, the airplaine is supposedly flying over a rainbow. Or, you could have seen this variation of the same theme. Hate it to break it to you, but flying over a rainbow is physically impossible! What […]

Our readers have recently suggested us to investigate over a case of presumed animal cruelty. The “culprit” is UGG, a renowned manufacturer from Australia, guilty of using raccoon dog skin for the boots on sale. I shall not indulge in showing the imagery that was sent to us for reasons of decency, the pictures being outright […]

I loved Halloween ever since I was a kid. The tricks, the treats, the magic in the air. Those were the wonder years of my childhood, when a simple blanket with two holes on it could become the perfect Halloween night costume. It is also the time when the usual unfounded accusations come to life – “Halloween […]

Some readers have sent us an apparently reliable source, which goes a bit like this: Dopo sei mesi, i cittadini europei disoccupati sono pregati di lasciare la Germania. Questa la misura più drastica invocata dal governo di Berlino per bloccare quello che media e politici tedeschi definiscono Sozialturismus, cioé il turismo del welfare. D’altra parte, come […]

  the latest venture in order of time of Dynamo , 32 year-old British magician , was One of Those by Staying in the annals of Magic : rise above the tallest skyscraper in London, the Shard . What a shame Something went SIA was to come : Many of Spectators Having witnessed the macabre […]

This was a rather gruesome story which was begged for confirmation from one of our readers. The reader asked us about what he perceived as a presumingly false story about “a boy hacked down by his own father” and the father being found not guilty of the murder, which has circulated on the Italian side […]